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Yes I do. DPRK owns about 12,000 artillery pieces, ROK less than 6,000. However, we know only the number of the pieces they own, but it's highly speculative how many of those are usable. Some estimates say that 4,000 to 6,000 are only used to deliver spare parts to the rest, or are too dangerous to be used. That is the problem about the whole DPRK army equipment, nobody knows how much of it will fall apart after the second shot has been fired from it.
It should also be interesting how responsive the DPRK population has been to their propaganda, and how much their bad life conditions have gotten to them. Would they receive invaders with open arms, or would they form partisan movements? Really interesting questions, they determine how fierce resistance would be.
Okay, I'll answer my own question, too. Conclusions. It's quite obvious that DPRK isn't going to play along with the west, so the first step should me multi-sided. On the one hand, strict sanctions and embargos, that put all of the trade with them to a halt. I have also heard yesterday that even China is closing part of its border posts to DPRK. Ground their airline, keep their merchant fleet out, and cut them off. At the same time, ROK should be provided to stock up on arms, especially their Air Force. And if it really comes to a war, we should assist them, quite frankly, we'd have to. We can't be their allies for 50 years in piece times, and then twiddle our thumbs when they're at war. I see our task in making the DPRK troops bleed men and material at the border and on their own terrain, and take the swing out of their attack.
Or maybe we should demand one Nuclear Weapons test from them after the other, until they run out of fission material.
It should also be interesting how responsive the DPRK population has been to their propaganda, and how much their bad life conditions have gotten to them. Would they receive invaders with open arms, or would they form partisan movements? Really interesting questions, they determine how fierce resistance would be.
Okay, I'll answer my own question, too. Conclusions. It's quite obvious that DPRK isn't going to play along with the west, so the first step should me multi-sided. On the one hand, strict sanctions and embargos, that put all of the trade with them to a halt. I have also heard yesterday that even China is closing part of its border posts to DPRK. Ground their airline, keep their merchant fleet out, and cut them off. At the same time, ROK should be provided to stock up on arms, especially their Air Force. And if it really comes to a war, we should assist them, quite frankly, we'd have to. We can't be their allies for 50 years in piece times, and then twiddle our thumbs when they're at war. I see our task in making the DPRK troops bleed men and material at the border and on their own terrain, and take the swing out of their attack.
Or maybe we should demand one Nuclear Weapons test from them after the other, until they run out of fission material.
tripod said:North Korea has conventional artillery that could light the entire city of Seoul immediatly on fire, Claire Talon will attest to this. Let's have no illusions about the North Korean military, they have a VERY powerful regional presence (the world's fifth largest military with a peasant-worker reserve army of 4,000,000). There can be NO taking on the army of North Korea in any form of land combat without MASSIVE casualties. Any solution must NOT provoke a military response by North Korea. South Korea would be annihilated. I see now that this could become a future possibility because China is growing ever closer to Japan, atleast in an economic sense. I actually have no idea of what to do, save for direct talks and an end to the Korean War with a peace treaty (call me crazy).